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Browse the stacks on the Libe's 3rd Floor
Oversize books often feature excellent reproductions and are found in their own section.
N Visual Arts (General)
NA Architecture
NB Sculpture
NC Illustration, Design, Drawing.
ND Painting
NE Printing
NK Decorative Arts, Applied Arts
NX Arts in General
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A collection of hundreds of thousands of images, including art, architecture, design, and much more. Search by artist (creator) name for best results. Doesn't include much biographical information, but is an unmatched source for high-quality images. - Bridgeman Education This link opens in a new window
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Includes images from hundreds of sources and thousands of artists, from prehistory to the present, from the Bridgeman Art Library.
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A nonprofit digital library that includes more than 435,000 images, documents, and videos representing more than 14,000 exhibitions, performances, and other projects. - Google Arts & Culture
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A unique collaboration with some of the world’s most acclaimed art museums to enable people to discover and view more than a thousand artworks online in extraordinary detail.
Research
- Oxford Art Online This link opens in a new window
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Covering all aspects of the visual arts, this collection includes such key reference works as the Grove Dictionary of Art, The Benezit Dictionary of Artists, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms. - Artforum Archive This link opens in a new window
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The Artforum Archive spans six decades (1962-2020) of reporting on art in all media, offering features, reviews, and interviews relating to artists, exhibitions, publications, and other art world events / trends. See the Catalyst record for recent issues. - Art Full Text & Art Index Retrospective This link opens in a new window
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Indexes a wide array of international art literature back to 1929. Also indexes reproductions included in these publications. Includes some full text for literature from 1997 to the present.
